Prerequisite: USCH 1112. Through the lens of four problems central to modernity - evil, violence, faith/reason, and the individual in society - examines and discusses several texts of the modern period, including Descartes' Meditations, Voltaire's Candide, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, together with selected works of music, visual art, and film. Open to University Scholars only.